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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up The government had planned to have cards issued in Manchester in October but this week it was revealed that people living or working in Manchester will now be able to enrol their details for an ID... [20 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The Home Office announced today that people living or working in Manchester will now be able to enrol their details for an ID card from 30 November, with the first cards issued around 10... [16 Nov 2009]
The REAL ID Act: Why Real ID Cards Should Be Based on Smart Card Technology
White Paper The Smart Card Alliance strongly recommends that smart card technology be adopted as the underlying infrastructure for state driver's licenses issued to comply with the requirements of the REAL... [14 Nov 2009]
Smart Cards and Biometrics in a Privacy-Sensitive Secure Personal Identification System
White Paper Both government and commercial organizations are implementing secure personal Identification (ID) systems to improve confidence in verifying the identity of individuals seeking access to physical or virtual locations. [14 Nov 2009]
Smart Card Technology: The Right Choice for REAL ID
White Paper Unlike other identification technologies, smart cards can implement a personal firewall for an individual's data, releasing only the information required and only when it is required. The card's unique... [12 Nov 2009]
Using Smart Cards for Secure Physical Access
White Paper Standards-based smart Identification (ID) cards can be used to easily authenticate a person's identity, determine the appropriate level of access, and physically admit the cardholder to a facility. Smart... [12 Nov 2009]
ID cards: 10,000 Brits want to sign up
News The first ID cards were issued to foreign nationals living in the UK from last November. The cards will be rolled out to the rest of the UK on a voluntary basis from 2011/12. Thousands... [19 Oct 2009]
First ID card watchdog named
News The government has appointed its first identity commissioner to keep tabs on the UK's ID cards scheme. Sir Joseph Pilling will take up the watchdog role from next month, where he will be responsible for... [14 Sep 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and debit... [18 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo The white British card looks rather different to the pink and blue ID cards for foreign nationals, seen here, that were unveiled last November. The card holds similar... [30 Jul 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Urban, educated Indians have a multitude of identification cards provided by the government such as passport, driver's licence, income tax payee card and voter's card. No single... [27 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up Meanwhile, the policy train-wreck that is the ID cards scheme got even more painful this week after it was revealed that the scheme to hand out the cards to airport staff has cost the... [24 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News ID card costs alone for the 2009/10 year are projected to reach £50m and hit £1.31bn over the 10-year period to 2019, according to the government's latest Identity Cards Scheme Cost... [23 Jul 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News IBM's contract to supply technology for ID cards will last seven years, despite the possibility that a change in government could scupper the scheme. The NBIS is used for biometric passports and for the... [13 Jul 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News This is the latest blow to hit the ID card project - the government has already announced it does not plan to make the cards compulsory and has recently dropped plans which require... [08 Jul 2009]
